KARACHI: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Sindh President Ali Zaidi Saturday joined the growing list of leaders jumping ship as he announced quitting politics and resigned from party positions.
Zaidi also condemned the May 9 violence that occurred following the arrest of PTI chairman Imran Khan as he announced his departure from politics.
PTI Chairman Imran Khan’s arrest in the Al-Qadir Trust case from the premises of Islamabad High Court on May 9 and subsequent violent protests, during which unruly supporters and workers stormed and torched state installations almost across the country, caused a mass exodus of leaders from the former ruling party.
Following the attacks on defence and other state properties, a crackdown was launched on the PTI to detain the suspects involved in the vandalism with the country’s top civil and military leadership vowing to try rioters under relevant laws of the country including the Army Act amid concerns by the PTI chief and international human rights groups.
Several PTI leaders including close aides of Imran Khan have announced quitting the party over May 9 vandalism with some blaming Khan’s policies for the attacks on the military installations. However, Imran Khan has dubbed the exodus as ‘forced separations’.
It is to mention here that PTI’s vice chairman Shah Mahmood Qureshi and President Ch. Pervez Elahi are the among standing with Khan despite ‘pressures’.
The PTI deserters so far include:
Punjab
Senior vice president Fawad Chaudhry
Senior vice president Shireen Mazari
Former provincial minister Fayazul Hassan Chohan
Ex-MNA Khawaja Qutab Fareed Koreja
Founding member Aamer Mahmood Kiani
Chaudhry Wajahat Hussain
Ex-MPA Abdul Razaq Khan Niazi
Ex-MPA Makhdoom Iftikharul Hassan Gillani
Ex-MPA Mian Jaleel Ahmed Sharaqpuri
Additional secretary general south Punjab Malik Asif Awan
Ex-MPA Jalil Sharqpuri
Ex-MPA Syed Saeedul Hassan
Former federal minister Malik Amin Aslam
PTI West Punjab President Faizullah Kamoka
Former PTI central deputy secretary general for Islamabad Dr Muhammad Amjad
Ticket holder (PP-248) Dr Mohammad Afzal
Ticket holder (PP-257) Chaudhary Jehanzeb Rasheed
Ex-MPA Saleem Akhtar Labar
MNA Chaudhry Hussain Elahi
Ticket holder (PP-247) Chaudhry Ehsanul Haq
Ex-MPA Zaheeruddin Khan Alizai
Ex-MPA Aun Dogar
Ex-MPA Sajjad Hussain Cheena
Ex-MPA Sardar Qaisar Abbas Khan Magsi
Ex-MPA Ashraf Rind
Ex-MPA Abdul Hai Dasti
Ex-MPA Malik Mujtaba Niaz Gishkori
Ex-MPA Alamdar Husain Qureshi
Ex-MPA Javed Ansari
Muhammad Saleem Baryar
Ex-MPA Ansir Iqbal Baryar
Ex-MNA Maleeka Ali Bokhari
Ex-MPA Javed Akhtar Ansari
Ex-MPA Ahsan Saleem Baryar
President PTI Gujranwala Khalid Aziz Lone
Ex-MPA Musarrat Jamshed Cheema
Ex-MPA Ayaz Khan Niazi
Ex-MPA Mian Mumtaz Ahmad Maharwi
Ex-MPA Asif Manzoor
Jamshed Iqbal Cheema
Ex-MPA Malik Akram Kanhon
Ex-MPA Murad Raas
Ex-MPA Pir Ahmad Khagga
Senator leader Saifullah Niazi
Ex-MNA Khurram Shahzad
Ex-MPA Raja Yawar Kamal
Ex-MPA Chaudhry Muhammad Adnan
Abrar-ul-Haq
Khusro Bakhtiar
Ex-MPA Ahmad Shah Khagga
Ex-MPA Mian Ahsan Ansar Bhatti
Dr Firdous Ashiq Awan
Ex-MPA Muhammad Waris Aziz
Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa
Former advisor to chief minister Malik Qasim Khan Khattak
MNA Usman Tarakai
Former provincial minister Dr Hisham Inamullah Malik
Ex-KP government spokesperson Ajmal Wazir
District leader Malik Qayyum Hissam
Ex-MPA Nadia Sher Ali
MNA Malik Jawad Hussain
Ex-KP minister Muhammad Iqbal Wazir
Ex-MPA Nadia Sher
Ex-MPA Haider Ali Khan
Sindh
Sindh MPA Omar Omari
PTI Sindh Vice President Mehmood Moulvi
PTI Karachi President Aftab Siddiqui
Sindh President Ali Zaidi
MPA Bilal Ghaffar
MNA Jay Prakash
MPA Syed Zulfiqar Ali Shah
MPA Sanjay Gangwani
Ex-MPA Omar Amari
Ex-MNA Syma Nadeem
MPA Muhammad Abbas Jafri
MPA Dr Imran Shah
District President Khairpur Syed Ghulam Shah
Ex-MPA Karim Bakhsh Gabol
MPA Imran Ali Shah
Rabia Azfar Nizami
Balochistan
Senator Mohammad Abdul Qadir
Ex-provincial minister Mubeen Khilji
